Weight Loss Support Group Meeting Minutes

Facilitated by Dr. Michelle Coker, Clinical Psychologist One of the triggers for eating is our emotions. We use food to soothe ourselves in many stressful situations, but it can be controlled with some awareness. Dr. Coker talked about a simple way to clarify why we are eating called HALT: H – Hungry: Do I […]

Facilitated by Chris Bovos, BSN, CBN The following is an outline summary of the food label presentation given at the January 2nd support group meeting. This information has been written up in more detail and presented in a blog article that can be viewed on our blog page: Healthy Eating – The Importance of Understanding […]

Facilitated by: Kari McKeown, RPT and Barb Cashman, RPT Our two new physical therapists in the office were introduced and they spoke briefly about how they would be meeting with all patients pre-operatively to do a physical evaluation of mobility and making recommendations for activity that can be started prior to surgery. Kari shared the […]

The different components that the body is composed of are: Bones Organs Muscles Fat Along with water, these are what our bodies are made up of. When we talk about your “fat free mass” we are talking about water, bones, organs and muscles. Once you have finished growing, your bones and organs don’t grow anymore […]

Facilitator: Michelle Coker, PhD Dr. Coker is a clinical psychologist at the Bariatric Center if Kansas City, and sees patients both before and after surgery. She defined cross addiction, or transfer addiction as it is sometimes called, as “…the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice that is psychologically or physically detrimental […]

Facilitator: Chris Bovos, RN, CBN : Chris spoke about Willpower, which most of us wish we had more of, to stop us from making choices that turn out to be bad for us. Since temptations never stop, it is important to understand that we can improve or strengthen our willpower. There has been a great […]

Facilitator: Gina Daugherty, CM Gina has been involved in fashion since she was in high school, when she worked at Jones Store to coordinate outfits for fashion shows. She pulled a number of clothing items from the clothing exchange closets to show how to put together different outfits using just a few items of clothing. […]

Facilitator: Stephanie Wagner, MS, RDN Stephanie started with the two most important issues in getting back on track whenever you find you’ve regained some weight and stopped following your guidelines: Motivation and Accountability; the “mental side” of getting back on track. Key 1: Motivation – what motivated you a year ago is different than […]

Facilitator: Kathi Williams, LMFT-T Kathi started with an exercise that helped show us how much we associate food with relationships. Some of those associations are good, and some are bad, but they frequently involve family and a lot are about comforting ourselves with food. Then she did another exercise where we did some “self-soothing” and […]